Soc 101 - Introduction to Sociology » Spring 2022 » Final Quiz Chapter 16 & 21 Social Change Quiz

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Question #1
In low-income nations, most education is a matter of
A.   what children can teach themselves.
B.   formal schooling and then college.
C.   teaching by religious leaders.
D.   what parents and other community members teach their children.
Question #2
An example of the cultural capital advantage of well-to-do students in U.S. schooling is parents who
A.   encourage the development of imagination in their children.
B.   value schooling and encourage their children.
C.   All of these responses are correct.
D.   spend more time reading to their children.
Question #3
The fact that, historically, schooling has been mostly for elites is evident in the fact that the word "school" has the same root as the Greek word for
A.   “wisdom.”
B.   “elder.”
C.   “learning.”
D.   “leisure.”
Question #4
Education is the social institution by which society provides people with important knowledge, including
A.   job skills.
B.   cultural norms and values.
C.   basic facts and information.
D.   All of these responses are correct.
Question #5
If you were to enter a school in ancient Greece or China, the students you would find there would be mainly
A.   the rich.
B.   foreigners.
C.   women.
D.   soldiers.
Question #6
Combining glass, a filament, and metal base (all of which previously existed) to form a new tool called the light bulb is an example of ________.
A.   discovery
B.   reformulation
C.   invention
D.   diffusion
Question #7
Social change is almost always
A.   good for everyone in a society.
B.   controversial.
C.   planned
D.   All of these responses are correct.
Question #8
In the United States, our culture makes us think that modernity always involves which of the following?
A.   inequality
B.   tradition
C.   celebrating the past
D.   progress
Question #9
Karl Marx understood modernity in terms of which of the following?
A.   the rise of rationality
B.   increasing productive specialization
C.   the loss of traditional community
D.   the rise of the capitalist economic system
Question #10
Actions performed by a group of people who bypass the usual norms governing their behavior and do something unusual are referred to as ________.
A.   bureaucratic ritualism
B.   cultural deviance
C.   collective behavior
D.   the Peter Principle

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